[cvsnt] Re: Server can't talk to itself, was: CVS tries connecting to localhost, want remote

[Glen Starrett]

Dick Jackson wrote:
>>Firewall preventing local access? 
> 
> No software firewall anymore, and the router's firewall couldn't be involved
> (right?).

Right -- it should never hit your router.

>>Try using the diag tool 
>>"cvsdiag.exe" in your cvsnt directory and post the results.
> 
> OK, that's below.

Looks like the same output I get (basically).

> Repository Prefix: (no value)
> Repository 0: G:/cvsrepo/test

I'm assuming G: is a local drive (network drives for repositories have 
issues).

> Local Users Only: Yes

Not sure why you have this on, but it shouldn't hurt anything.

> The "Disable Reverse DNS" caught my eye (can't say why, though) so I flipped it
> and get the same failures. Another problem is that while I can ping any named
> host on the 'net, I can't do nslookup!:

I think if you solve that problem then you'll have LockServer fixed. 
Lockserver uses DNS to assign a nice name to a host IP address. 
Disabling DNS should have only helped (assuming your reverse DNS is 
broken), but certainly not negativly affected it otherwise.

Do you have some filtering on your router for that machine?  Are you 
preventing that machine from communicating out?  Can you ping 
ftp.apple.com (or for that matter, your DNS servers)?  It looks like 
this is a network issue, not a CVSNT one.

-- 
Glen Starrett